The US sanctions a China-based cybersecurity company involved in the Salt Typhoon hacks and a Shanghai-based hacker involved in the recent US Treasury breach
Treasury's OFAC is sanctioning Yin Kecheng, a Shanghai-based cyber actor who was involved with the recent Department of the Treasury network compromise. … X: Nicole Perlroth / @nicoleperlroth : BIG: T...
How xenophobic content on Chinese social media, directed towards Japan, the US, Jews, and others, became the subject of a debate and spreads despite censorship
Li Yuan / New York Times : X: @kenroth , @scs_disputes , @scs_disputes , @liyuan6 , @david_mulroney , and @alfonslopeztena LinkedIn: Dr. Nils Seibert , Michael D Pendleton , and Gabriele Iuvinale . F...
How xenophobic content on Chinese social media, directed towards Japan, the US, Jews, and others, became the subject of a debate and spreads despite censorship
Li Yuan / New York Times : X: @kenroth , @liyuan6 , @scs_disputes , @scs_disputes , @david_mulroney , and @alfonslopeztena LinkedIn: Dr. Nils Seibert , Michael D Pendleton , and Gabriele Iuvinale . F...
Elon Musk sent no tweets during his visit to China, the longest hiatus from the platform since June 2022; once his jet left Shanghai, Musk tweeted about SpaceX
Elon Musk, a prolific presence on Twitter and owner of the social media platform, didn't send any tweets while he was in China for his first visit since the pandemic.
Group-IB: since the data of ~1B Chinese citizens appeared for sale, smaller tranches have appeared on forums, often including personal info and national IDs
Bloomberg : Tweets: @jeffstone500 Tweets: Jeff Stone / @jeffstone500 : Vast amount of Chinese data for sale on dark forums after Shanghai cops lost control about 1 billion people, @_szheng finds. Bre...
How China's mass collection of personal info and its new, unevenly enforced data security rules contribute to a thriving underground market for stolen data
Government's mass collection of personal information aids social control but undermines national security, cybersecurity researchers say Tweets: @joshchin , @jchengwsj , @_karenhao , @jchengwsj , @chr...
Researchers say Alibaba's cloud platform that hosted Shanghai's now-leaked police database used outdated systems that didn't offer the ability to set a password
Cybersecurity companies say Alibaba's cloud platform that hosted Shanghai's police database used outdated systems that didn't offer ability to set a password
Experts say a dashboard for managing the Shanghai police database was left exposed from April 2021 to June 2022, letting a hacker steal data on nearly 1B people
An unidentified hacker on a forum is selling 23TB+ of allegedly stolen data on up to 1B Chinese residents for 10 BTC, after breaching a Shanghai police database
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Experts say a dashboard used to manage the Shanghai police database was left exposed from April 2021 to June 2022, letting a hacker steal details on ~1B people
Cybersecurity experts say error allowed theft of records of nearly 1 billion people, leading to $200,000 ransom note Tweets: @bhuvanbagga , @_karenhao , @_karenhao , @karynelevy , and @_karenhao Tweet...